2017 Batchelder Honor Book and ALA Notable Book Once upon a time there was a ship that sailed beside the sun with very important people on board. The spirit of reinvention – and the importance we place on things – is beautifully expressed in José Sanabria’s visually evocative story. A steamship makes a journey across time from luxury and exclusivity, industry and abandonment, to stewardship and inclusion as we see the evolving functions of the ship and the changing faces of the people who cherish it most of all.

My Time Most people live their lives on a day to day basis. Our planning calendar is booked for three to seven days in the future. We seldom take a step back and look at recent events in perspective. This book is intended to provide that perspective look at events that shaped the course of our lives. Only in retrospect do we realize the changes that have occurred and influenced events of our lives. This process might be compared to watching an "Old time silent movie". How strangely people dressed and acted in "those days". We get a sense of values and attitudes of that time. Then we see movies made during the 1930's. There is a difference in dress, in automobiles, in the telephones seen in those movies. Customs have changed and attitudes have changed since those early silent movie days. This book links day to day living with the evolving events that impact our lives, shape attitudes and philosophies, as individuals, as states and nations. It has been said, "The only thing certain is change."

In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison. These courageous resisters leave family and community and life on the outside in their efforts to direct U.S. policy away from its militarism. Many are Catholic Workers, devoting their lives to the works of mercy instead of the works of war. They are homemakers and carpenters and social workers and teachers who are often called "faith-based activists." They speak from the left of the political perspective, providing a counterpoint to the faith-based activism of the fundamentalist Right. In their own words, the narrators describe their motivations and their preparations for acts of resistance, the actions themselves, and their trials and subsequent jail time. We hear from those who do their time by caring for their families and managing communities while their partners are imprisoned. Spouses and children talk frankly of the strains on family ties that a life of working for peace in the world can cause. The voices range from a World War II conscientious objector to those protesting the recent war in Iraq. The book includes sections on resister families, the Berrigans and Jonah House, the Plowshares Communities, the Syracuse Peace Council, and Catholic Worker houses and communities. The introduction by Dan McKanan situates these activists in the long tradition of resistance to war and witness to peace.

Th e book of Princess Diana, Th e Haunting Story of the English Rose is an explicit book about the death of Princess Diana and is a well-documented book for the discerning reader to understand all that Princess Diana went through to reach out to her sons and the world and is striving to be with us again in making her love be understood to many. Th is is a very sad book about all she went through and is pleading out to all to deliver her message to her sons and the world to know they are loved by her. Princess Diana has given her love to many and continues to do so. Princess Diana who implores many to come to terms with their lives and to walk through her steps and follow her through what life is like when your life has to come to an end in this world. She has given her utmost throughout this book and is a very sad account that many will come to understand her and imploring her love to reach out to her sons and the world around us in coming to terms what their eventual outcome will be and to be with her through all that she is going through and to hold her close to your heart again. Many will appreciate Princess Diana and love her and would want her story to be heard of all that she is going through to be with her sons and the world. Whenever such a book was created as unique as this one it will make you see through her eyes.

A look at man's attempts to accurately measure time shows how the concept of time has steadily evolved and broadened our perception of the world.